A lone gunman, chanting Islam's rallying cry of God is Greatest, fired at a group of foreign tourists in the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday, killing a British man and wounding six, an official and a witness said.Consider Jordan struck off the list of fun vacation spots.
Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Joudeh denied earlier reports that the attack was carried out by two men, one of them an Iraqi. He said the gunman, a Jordanian, had been arrested and was being questioned.
Joudeh told Reuters the wounded were three Britons, a Dutch national, a New Zealander and their Jordanian tour guide. Police cordoned off the site of the attack near the Roman amphitheatre in the downtown area of the capital. "I was walking when I saw someone pull out a pistol from his pocket and start shouting Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest) and fire repeatedly," Mohammad Jawad Ali, an Iraqi who witnessed the shooting, told Reuters. "Then I saw one tourist who appeared to be dead and three who were injured. They were in a group of seven. A woman told me they were tourists from New Zealand and England," Ali said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack
Monday, September 04, 2006
Jihadi mindset is becoming a bit of a panoramic.
The Ynet News gives this report of at least one Jordanian gunman opening fire at group of tourists for being, well, tourists:
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